Victim of Dingman Township crowbar beating still critical

The man who was beaten with a crowbar and discovered unexpectedly by police, unconscious on the bathroom floor of a Dingman Township home, is still in critical condition in Lehigh Valley Hospital.

BETH BRELJE

The man who was beaten with a crowbar and discovered unexpectedly by police, unconscious on the bathroom floor of a Dingman Township home, is still in critical condition in Lehigh Valley Hospital.

State police found Kevin Munson, 19, bleeding profusely, unable to speak Wednesday, and so badly injured on his head and body that he could not be identified. When police found him, they had him airlifted to Lehigh Valley Hospital.

Munson was found in the bathroom of an apartment on Ash Lane in the Pocono Woodlands development where Vincent John Colletta lives.

Police were at Colletta's home to serve a warrant for Colletta's arrest on a Pike County parole violation from an original charge of burglary.

Police got permission from Colletta's father, the property owner, to search the apartment and found Munson in the blood-spattered bathroom.

Colletta, 22, was later found wearing Munson's shoes, and driving Munson's car, with the bloody crowbar.

He was taken into police custody on the original probation/parole violation warrant.

Colletta told police that he pushed Munson into a glass door and struck him three times in the head with a crowbar. According to the criminal complaint, he said that after striking Munson with the crowbar, he dragged his unconscious body into the bathroom, and attempted to clean the blood from the scene with household cleaning products. Colletta also said he removed Munson's clothing, and took from Munson an iPhone, $20 and four bags of heroin.